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...bloodiest year since the violence began seven years ago. The violence in the North has become random. Gunmen burst into pubs and spray customers with automatic-weapons fire, then disappear. Earlier in July, a terrorist shot a pregnant woman, who later gave birth to a child-with a bullet in its back. If there is any "rational" target of the gunmen now, it is the British, who are blamed by both sides for preventing either side from seizing full power in Ulster. The homes of three British civil servants have been bombed in the North this year...
Last Friday another bomb exploded, this one in the dining room of the security branch of the federal police. At least 18 people were killed and many more were reported missing in the rubble; 66 were wounded, eleven of them critically. The following day, eight bullet-riddled bodies were found in a parking lot a few blocks from the blast site. The deaths pushed the tally of fatalities resulting from political violence to nearly 450 in the three months since the junta took over. Of those, more than 70 have been policemen. An unknown number of other people have either...
...brothers look like Harpo and Chico Marx: "Gone now are February and March, season of drowned men, when ice on the frozen rivers melts, yielding up the winter's harvest of junkies, itinerants and prostitutes. Soon to come are July and August - the jackknife months. Heat and homicide. Bullet holes, knife wounds, fatal garrotings, a grisly procession vomited out of the steamy ghettos of the inner city...
Meanwhile, hundreds of distraught Sowetonians last week began the grim task of identifying and claiming the bodies of their loved ones. "Her body had many bullet holes," sobbed one black mother after identifying her 18-year-old daughter. One family, searching for their ten-year-old son, waited in the Johannesburg morgue from 6 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, only to be told to come back the next day, when more bodies would be brought in. Headmasters at Soweto schools asked for permission to hold a mass funeral for the dead Soweto schoolchildren on July 3. Even...
...French near the Ohio River, and he then spent three years patrolling the western frontiers against marauding Indians. In 1755, at the disastrous battle before Fort Duquesne, he served as an aide to the ill-fated General Edward Braddock. Washington had two horses shot from under him (and four bullet holes shot into his hat and coat) while trying to rally the men. He was cool in action, a comrade recalls, "like a bishop at his prayers...